We have the pleasure to inform you that the balance formerly stated to be due from you as executor of your father, is by a late decree of the Court reduced to the sum of six hundred and twenty four dollars sixty Cents $624.60 wit… Continue Reading To Washington Thornton, 5 Dec. 1826

     Genl Washington in his life time sold to Arch. McLain what was called the round bottom tract on the Ohio, as containing 587 acres, with a general warranty, at the price of ten dollars an acre.

     I return you my best acknowledgments for the three Speeches which you were so good as to enclose me some days ago.

     I understand that Mr Richard Forest of Washington is a candidate for the consulate at Tunis, and having I believe gained the good Opinion of the President by correct conduct and attention to the duties of the Office which he… Continue Reading To Timothy Pickering, 24 Dec. 1809

     The indulgence asked for my Nephew until I could dispose of his property, having been refused, I have been compelled to borrow the money to satisfy your present claim.

The Case of the Grotius

I should have been much gratified if Mrs Story would have done us the favor to retain the flowers & fruit which she was so obliging as to bring for us from Mt V.… Continue Reading To Joseph Story, [c.1812-1829]

The Chief Justice informs me that you are to draw the opinion in the Case of Bell & Wilkins &c. I stated to him that a night's reflection had induced me to chan… Continue Reading To Joseph Story, 15 Feb. 1828

     The President of the United States being desirous of availing the public of your Services as one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, I have now the honor of enclosing the commission and of ex… Continue Reading From Timothy Pickering, 6 Oct. 1798

     I have the honor to enclose a new commission for you as one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, which has been issued in consequence of the President's having nominated you to the Senate and… Continue Reading From Timothy Pickering, 27 Dec. 1798

     I presume I am not mistaken in supposing that an injunction is the proper and most effectual mode of preventing a person from drowning a millseat of mine by raising his dam below it.

After an absence from home for more than three months and a half, I have returned with health in no respect impaired by my official labors.